The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Sleeping Beauty Problem

Are you a halfer or a thirder? Watch this video on an unnerving probability problem to pick your side. I’m firmly in the thirder camp, only slightly worried by the fact that in consequence, I also must believe that we live in a simulation.


From Weekly Filet #429, in February 2023.

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